Example sentences of "very [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
| 2 | Erm then we said er another the train to such a place will be quarter of an hour late , we 're very sorry cos it 's held up , everything was standing outside the station , er they 're all held up with this fire at Banbury , was upsetting everything |
| 3 | They were very discreet but it looked to me like an assignation . ’ |
| 4 | In another he found old shoes piled high on rusty tables and there was one room he thought very odd but it made him smile . |
| 5 | It 's very friendly And it followed us into the lane several times and then we 'd chase it back |
| 6 | This ability is very striking because it shows clearly that young children can think about a non-existent or counterfactual situation . |
| 7 | And what 's the point of a journey that seems very pleasant if it gets you to the wrong place ! |
| 8 | That would have created jobs quickly , it 's not very inflationary and it does n't suck in large amounts of imports . |
| 9 | This was right up the top and there were a tiny attic bedroom thing was made into a not very salubrious but it had a cooker and a sink . |
| 10 | They did exchange it in the end but I had to be very insistent and it took three months . |
| 11 | She said the notice was very detailed and it had taken longer than expected to draw up . |
| 12 | The most recent , and it 's quite exciting , is to use magnetic resonance imaging to look at erm nuclei in the body and to see what they 're doing and where they are , and that 's going to be very exciting but it involves having a very very large magnet in which one puts a whole patient all at once . |
| 13 | ‘ We stayed in a tent for four days and got very wet because it rained all the time , ’ she says . |
| 14 | yeah west side is very popular and it tends to be the area where we get the older properties as well so that 's encouraging |
| 15 | All this may strike us as very patronising but it reveals at least as much concern about the welfare , and rehabilitation , of prisoners as the incarceration policies of the present day . |
| 16 | I 'm sure you 'll work something out with Ian , but Sophie will have to be very careful when it comes to choosing the right person to replace you . ’ |
| 17 | I think it was very interesting and it warns you not to talk to strangers . |
| 18 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 19 | The Lycoming 0–320 B3B engine is very reliable and it has a TBO of 2000 hours but only when half inch valves are fitted . |
| 20 | There are special toothpastes which are not harmful if swallowed , and brushing your dog 's teeth is actually very easy once it has been demonstrated by a vet . |
| 21 | A spokesman for the Oxford diocese said : ’ We are very sad that people who are grieving have experienced this kind of rejection and we are very sad that it happened . |
| 22 | It would have been very sad if it had been stopped . ’ |
| 23 | Most people 's long-term memory is very limited when it comes to remembering specific points or ideas . |
| 24 | Fine for some , sure , but a P-bass is very simple and it sounds bloody good . |
| 25 | They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting . |
| 26 | I 've tried most of the guitar synths and stuff , but I just prefer my instrument : it 's very human and it makes the right noise . |
| 27 | I think to its detriment , it has been very white and it has been very historically specific , but the more I hear about what women are doing in Africa and India I think that the visions are very similar even though the words sometimes are different . |
| 28 | Eugénie loved the sea and was a strong swimmer even though at Biarritz she found that ‘ the sea was very cold and it required great strength of mind to get in ’ . |
| 29 | When we got through Ramsgate town centre and onto the motorway we hit roadworks and a long traffic jam , the weather became very overcast and it started to rain . |
| 30 | The response to the questionnaire about training has been very satisfactory and it has provided the Training Committee with plenty of information to work on for planning future training programmes . |